Like the Leia getting force powers out of nowhere in space. Sheesh.

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    1 year ago

    Having bombing spaceships that bizzarely seem to rely on gravity was a pretty terrible way to open a film.

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      1 year ago

      They weren’t using gravity, they were electromagnetic rails that shot the bombs out of the bay into the enemy ships. I mean it’s still dumb since you could fire them from further away, just not dumb for the gravity reason.

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      I’m not a 100% sure I understand this. IIRC it was bombing spaceships hovering above a planet dropping bombs into the atmosphere, correct? (Totally possible that I’m misremembering!) In that case using gravity would be absolutely fine.

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        I could be wrong but I could’ve sworn that while they were fighting above a planet, they were still “dropping” bombs on a ship below them.

        So if the rebels have a ship that works only if you happen to be fighting above a planet with a ship below you, that’s even sillier!

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          Oh, the bombs were meant for another ship, not the planets surface? Then indeed gravity makes little sense, or at least it’s a very straightforward and uninspired port of the concept of bomber planes.

          But I guess they wanted it to fit in with everything else… :(